Word: restrictiveness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...good way to hold down prizes was to restrict the points rolled up by any fixed winner. One indignant Twenty One veteran, greying Mrs. Rose Leibbrand, executive director of the National Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs, explained how it was done. Just before showtime Producer Freedman fed her the answers, and a warning: "Just remember not to bid over seven or eight -or else...
...Statment" incorporated as part of the preceding resolution: We, the faculty of Bowdoin College, strongly object to the affidavit for the following reasons: First, it will restrict the exercise of academic freedom by both students and teachers. This effect arises because the affidavit constitutes an inquiry into belief and association and because its meaning is extremely vague. No objective criteria are given for identifying the organizations alluded to, and what constitutes support is not specified...
...coal and steel tariffs and to outlaw cartels. But in the past six months, slackening European demand for coal, plus U.S. competition, has stacked up 30 million tons of unsold coal (TIME, March 2 et seq.). Fortnight ago, when the High Authority of the community ordered its members to restrict the production and import of coal, France, Germany and Italy rejected this supranational solution in favor of individual national measures...
...took an expected step. It approved a hike in the discount rate on loans to commercial banks from 3% to 3½% for five member banks: New York, Chicago, St. Louis, Minneapolis and Dallas. The new discount rate is the highest since the fall of 1957, is bound to restrict even further the tightening money market. The Federal National Mortgage Association braced itself for tighter money by reducing the price it will pay for Government underwritten mortgages from 99% to 97% of face value. When money gets tight, as Fannie May knows, lenders turn in their mortgages...
...contended that profits are still "inadequate" to support a wage hike. Even at last year's relatively high levels, steel's profits-to-assets ratio ranked 27th among the nation's 41 key industries. The "obvious" solution to wage-push inflation, said Steelman Adams, is to restrict "the growing labor monopoly power, even as other monopoly powers, which have threatened our welfare, have been restricted." Snapped an aroused Dave McDonald: "Baloney...